Summary: | x11-drivers/ati-drivers: X crashes when closing the lid (ACPI problem?) | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Stefan Kamphausen <mail> |
Component: | [OLD] Unspecified | Assignee: | Luca Barbato <lu_zero> |
Status: | RESOLVED CANTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | je_fro, pacho, x11 |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: | My current xorg.conf |
Description
Stefan Kamphausen
2009-04-23 11:23:08 UTC
Please attach your xorg.conf file. Created attachment 189431 [details]
My current xorg.conf
Thanks for taking care. I attached my current xorg.conf. I tried without any xorg.conf at all, earlier I still had the input devices active and I tried the settings mentioned when emerging ati-drivers. I not 100% sure, though, that I tried everything.
Regards,
Stefan
Update: In the meantime I recompiled all of kde-base (no change) and removed the kde configuration ($HOME/.kde/ and $HOME/.kderc) (also no change). I tried this because there is no problem when only kdm is running. Just when I log in can I crash the machine. Damn, I need this computer up and running. I hope this is not my way to Ubuntu (though, I've seen similar posts with Ubuntu, so it may make no difference?). Regards, Stefan More experiments: * modprobe -r ath9k Unfortunately I suffer from Atheros AR5418-sickness. Used an SVN-trunk madwifi for ages with little problems, the current ath9k keeps disconnecting all the time (about every minute or so). Since there was also a PCI-problem announced in syslog I thought I'd try without that module. No change. * Recompiled x11-libs, x11-apps, app-laptop, sys-power No change. Any more ideas, what I could try? Should I attach my kernel config? I'm about to remerge world (521 packages currently so it'll take some time). Regards, Stefan A new observation: if I open and close the lid once or sometimes twice, I will get the scrambled screen. Doing some input then like hitting a key or moving the mouse or pressing a mouse button will lead to the freezing of the machine within seconds. Opening and closing the lid some more times will get me back to a normal display,which I can't crash, again. It _is_ kind of a work-around. Other then that: I now load the acpi-cpufreq module and removed ath-modules completely from the kernel. Without success. I can't help but feeling that I miss something simple and maybe obvious. Regards, Stefan The problem only occurs when the laptop is powered. When running on batteries I can't seem to provoke the error. Since this seems to be a monologue, I'm at the end of what little wisdom I may have, and I need this computer in two days urgently, I will install that other Linux distribution today. Unfortunately we'll loose a test-case that way. Hopefully I'll find the time to get back to Gentoo later. (Still running Gentoo on the desktop, though, so I'm not lost :-) Cheers, Stefan Just for the record: FGLRX in Jaunty with my radeon Mobility X1400 fails miserably (no X at all, that card was dropped by ATI as it seems) and I now use the open source drivers. Using the external monitor requires X restart, though. ... so that is my punishment ;-) Cheers, Stefan Well i would recommend to switch onto xf86-video-ati. Sadly there is no hope in old ati-drivers releases, that is why i masked them too. The bug since it is binary blob is cantfix, sorry. |